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Meta Retains Fact-Checking Outside U.S.; Google Drops It in Europe

January 22, 2025
Meta has enthusiastically ditched U.S. fact-checking in favor of right-wing-friendly “community notes”.  But a spokesperson said on Monday that it will keep fact checkers active outside of the U.S., possibly because European regulators are more opposed to misinformation than the current U.S. regime. On the other hand, Google has told the European Commission that it will pull out of existing voluntary fact-checking commitments before these become legally required.
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FTC Is Shocked That Marketers Use Consumer Data

January 21, 2025
Jamie from our Department of the Obvious is thrilled at this Federal Trade Commission interim report which finds that “details like a person’s precise location or browser history can be frequently used to target individual consumers with different prices for the same goods and services.”  To quote the press release, “Staff found that consumer behaviors ranging from mouse movements on a webpage to the type of products that consumers leave unpurchased in an online shopping cart can be tracked and used by retailers to tailor consumer pricing.” Pearl clutching notwithstanding,... Read More >
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UK Anti-Trust Agency Targets Google Search

January 21, 2025
Jamie also shares that the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating whether Google has a dominant position in search marketing.  They know the answer but need a formal finding to designate Google as having “strategic market status” under the UK’s new digital marketing competition regime.  This will empower the CMA to impose conduct requirements and pro-competition interventions.  In other words, the fun is just begun.
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noyb files GDPR complaint against six platforms for transfers to China

January 21, 2025
TikTok, AliExpress, SHEIN, Temu, WeChat and Xiaomi were flagged by noyb, the privacy advocacy group, for unlawfully transferring EU data to China. While only four admit to sending their data to China, the others don’t disclose where they send data, so expectation is that transfers include to China. This is considered high risk because China is a surveillance state that does not guarantee that it will honor GDPR.
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